On this day in 1994 - October 13th - NASA's Magellan mission ended with the spacecraft plunging into Venus.

Magellan - also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper - was the first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle. It mapped the surface of Venus and measured the planetary gravitational field.


Mona Evans
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